Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that Peake 's trilogy Titus Groan , Gormenghast and Titus Alone has attracted such a cult following that Glass was apprehensive about doing justice to the novels in the eye of fans . |
| 2 | For its part , the city has made available a site overlooking the Rickmers shipyard and will cover all the costs of creating and equipping a sculpture park . |
| 3 | The present unsatisfactory state of the law relating to VAT could mean that VAT paid by the tenant may not be recoverable , and therefore the tenant should consider amending such a provision to provide that it will only pay VAT on such sums where it is first presented with a valid VAT invoice in the tenant 's name . |
| 4 | NATTA , The Network for Alternative Technology and Technology Assessment , in conjunction with the Open University Technology Policy Group , has initiated such a study aimed at establishing how aware people are of alternative and renewable sources of energy , in general . |
| 5 | These seem to have had their fears that the flood gates holding back university collections are now opening confirmed , as Edinburgh University announced last month that it was proposing to sell a sculpture by Adrian de Vries or a Ruisdael landscape , bequeathed by Sir James Torrie , to help put right a deficit permitted over the last few years by a Treasurer who has since resigned . |
| 6 | ‘ As for this , ’ she said , ‘ I am taking this , my sweet , to show your father who , I feel sure , will not want to let such a thing go unnoticed . ’ |
| 7 | UNLU would not have given such a warning had it not feared how the PLO outside might behave . |
| 8 | This made him easier to take home for the night ; people who would normally never have approached such a beauty felt that they could . |
| 9 | Then might you have seen many a horse running about the field with the saddle under his belly , and many a horseman in evil plight upon the ground . |
| 10 | Not only were most holdings too small to provide much work for hired labour , but the big villages that would have housed such a workforce did not exist . |
| 11 | The Intelligence Corps instructor who had taught him the trade would have had such a lock open with one twist but Maxim was out of practice and the lock was old and arthritic . |
| 12 | ‘ I would never have believed such a place existed , ’ she continued , glancing round the cave . |
| 13 | The sense of injustice created by such a system would inevitably work against its deterrent effectiveness ( Beccaria always acknowledged the importance of consent in producing compliance ; it is difficult to imagine how his version of the social contract would have allowed such a system to operate ) . |
| 14 | There are now strong pressures to extend the duration of CVRs to cover the whole of any flight , though it remains to be seen how long it will take to have such a standard accepted . |
| 15 | Whoever was about to emerge from beneath the dripping straw roof of this tiny hut on this minute hamlet on the eastern edge of this unknown volcanic islet was the first person in the world to rise on this February Saturday morning : Homo Pacificus , the symbol of all I had travelled half a world to see . |
| 16 | Yes but as I 've I 've seen many a bus coming towards Norwood Gardens goes round the little and back out again . |
| 17 | And the wise old bird , who had seen many a bully brought low in the twenty years since he was hatched , clicked his beak and closed his eyes . |
| 18 | I 'm afraid I ca n't stop long ’ , or leave them with ‘ Well , I must go ; I 've got such a lot to do , . |
| 19 | Both Jay and Dionne had spent many a dawn listening to each other on the latest One and Only . |
| 20 | He suspected that she had been an embarrassment to the authorities and that , in the conditions which then prevailed , what mattered was whether they wished to have such a person interned and not whether she had been subversive . |
| 21 | The USA in particular had urged such a cut to boost economic growth [ see pp. 37977-78 ; 38170 ; 38314 ; 38321 ] . |
| 22 | This would help prevent such a disaster occurring again . |
| 23 | Interest is being shown in the initiation of small local networks for members on career breaks and unemployed or retired members : 19 contacts who would help run such a network have been identified . |
| 24 | As for the comment you attributed to me , that Britain has a budding romance with pressurised water reactor , I have always been an advocate of keeping government out of the bedroom and would , therefore , never have allowed such a comment to pass From my lips . |